86 Bible Verses about Character Of Wicked
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For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They are a perverse and crooked generation.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea , contemneth Jehovah. The wicked, in the pride of his countenance,'saith , He will not require it . All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me , and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them ;
For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
The wicked, in the pride of his countenance,'saith , He will not require it . All his thoughts are, There is no God.
who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part'shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
And men were scorched men with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.
in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them .
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea , contemneth Jehovah.
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; But the righteous dealeth graciously, and giveth.
whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power therefore. From these also turn away.
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.
They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid my face and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them .
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.
They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.
Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
